Krasnobrodsky

Krasnobrodski (Russian Краснобродский ) is an urban-type settlement in Kemerovo Oblast (Russia) with 11,919 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The settlement is located on the western edge of the Kuznetsk Basin ( Kuzbass ), almost 140 km as the crow south of Kemerovo Oblasthauptstadt at the headwaters of Krivoy Uskat, one of the headwaters of the opening into the Tom Uskat. The city Kisseljowsk located 20 km south-east, Novokuznetsk is 60 km away.

Krasnobrodski forms one of the administrative Oblastverwaltung directly subordinate county to which even the settlements Artyschta (former urban-type ) and the Dubrovo station belong together with 3,441 inhabitants. The total population is therefore 15,339 ( 2009).

History

A village called Kamenny Brod ( "stone ford " ) in place of today's settlement has been known since the 1820s. 1931, it was renamed with ideological background in Krasny Brod ( "red ford ").

1947 was started at the village with the development of the first open pit of the Kuzbass; the coal mining began in 1948 .. A mining camp was established, under the present name was given the status of an urban-type settlement in 1953 and administratively attached to the 30 km northwest town Belovo was assumed.

In the course of administrative reform in Russia Krasnobrodski was spun off into a separate county in 2006.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and infrastructure

Main economic factor is the coal mining industry in the north and east of the settlement extending mining Krasnobrodski (associated since 1991 with the mining Nowosergejewski ), the ( OAO ) Kusbassrasresugol is operated today by the AG. Well in 2008 6.5 million tons of coal were mined, whereby the open pit is the third largest of the company is. There are also companies in the construction and building materials industry (gravel ).

The nearest train station is about 5 km southwest Trudarmeiskaja. This well located 10 kilometers west, to the town circle belonging Artyschta is an important railway junction with the large station Artyschta - 2 as well as the smaller Artyschta -1 and Kuzbass. Here, in 1933, completed between Novosibirsk united - Novokuznetsk with the built 1946-1951 western section of the " South Siberian Railway " of Barnaul ( Altaiskaja ). To the east branches, a finished in the 1980s, alternative route from Novokuznetsk, which bypasses the urban area around Kisseljowsk and Prokopjewsk and opens up the southern eastern part of the Kuzbass. All routes are electrified.

The sections of highway-like -developed and newly trassierte regional road Kemerovo - Leninsk- Kuznetsk - Novokuznetsk leads east past Krasnobrodski.